why do websites, where you buy stuff, still need that “don’t use the browser back button to click away when you are making a purchase”. Have we not got a better solution?
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Sooo there are a few things at play.
First, the payment system is one of those systems where if it works, you don’t wanna screw with it cause you don’t wanna break it.
Second, not everything is in the control of the site. A lot of it is driven by your browser, which the site makers can’t reliably account for ahead of time. This makes ensuring appropriate edge case behavior more challenging.
Third, many of these sites DO have a better solution and may have implemented it already. It’s a payment system, so getting it right is crucial. Even so, there’s a difference between fixing a problem and being confident you’ve fixed a problem. Especially with that second problem at play. If the problem is “probably fixed” but everything still works, the developers may leave the message in since it’s not harming anything, but it is reducing the number of times that fix gets field tested.
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